Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation.

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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Over the past two years, we’ve convened health care leaders at roundtables and other events to discuss the challenges and opportunities they face, both inside their organization and from the external market. More than three-quarters said they are on a good path to successfully compete in their local markets.

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Health Care Management Disruptive Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

With almost 4,000 employees, CSAA IG has embarked on a systemic approach to create a pervasive culture of innovation. The tactics being used by CSAA IG are all ones that leaders in other companies can apply to their own innovation culture change efforts. Most people focus on the first type of innovation: incremental.

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Insurance Innovation Core Competence Disruptive Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Alongside Clay Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen conducted an in-depth study that uncovered the five skills shared by the best innovators in the world. Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women are the Solution.

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Kaplan Christensen Books Disruptive Innovation 12

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Integrated : Ideas need to be incorporated into strategic initiatives and not constitute disparate systems. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post. Your work is specific and actionable.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Everything, everyone, and every system evolves over time. They can help keep your innovation pipeline full.

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation. Most innovation is the former, and is often little more than the clever replication or reproduction of what were once breakthrough, thus disruptive, innovations.

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Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Some retailers maintain a separate in-house team to try out potentially superior new systems that don’t follow traditional rules, in parallel with existing processes. By taking this approach, Amazon can improve its processes swiftly and the company’s senior leadership stays in touch with what’s happening on the front line.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.

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Technology CIO Agility Software 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation? How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise?

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Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Leadership and teams find it hard to come together to scope and resource projects appropriately as well as put projects on the shelf (or kill them) when needed.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Whatever has been stable, I will disrupt that stability. The company needs to continue to innovate and grow. I believe we can create a system and culture to perpetuate this culture of entrepreneurial and start-up spirit. China Disruptive innovation Global business' Understanding Chinese Consumers.

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Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation? How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise?

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Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

… Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%.

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Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Also, most billion-dollar ideas don’t start that way; they can benefit from the established operations, go-to-market or service capabilities, and other corporate assets that help to scale rapidly. To do that, Merck formed a Strategy & Innovation Council with people from across the company.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Specifically, she proposed a system that tracked the real-time inventory needs and usage of business units worldwide, located unused inventory in each unit, and arranged delivery of that inventory to where it was needed. She found that in the firm’s Director of Corporate Logistics and Information Systems, whom I’ll call Pramesh.

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Politics Innovation Project How To 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

He believed that the most disruptive innovations don't occur inside a single domain, but at the intersection of multiple diverse domains (such as the arts and the sciences). AppHaus truly embodies SAP's frugal innovation philosophy.

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Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Other measures suggest that the productivity of China’s innovation system is low. Their primary goal is employment and job creation, not disruptive innovation that may be risky but could create shareholder value. China’s educational system emphasizes rote learning rather than creative problem solving.

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Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Leaders equate risk with potential failure, so organizations have morphed into hierarchical, fixed systems to constrain variability within an acceptable range that has become progressively narrower. IT creates risk confusing leadership, governance, and managing. Netflix is another example of disruptive innovation.

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 10